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No. It is not possible. Steelseries have plate-mounted switches. If the switches are mounted on a plate, then they can not be opened without damaging the plastic casing. There are people that have opened switches by drilling in them, or cutting of the tabs that hold them together, but there would be...

I don't have any myself, but from what I have seen on the web, the models KB-5181 and KB-5191 are the most common with mechanical switches. KB-5161, KB-5162, KB-5181, KB-5182: ALPS-compatible clicky. Could be Blue ALPS or clicky SMK "Monterey" switches, or perhaps something else... I don't know. The...

On pianos, the total travel is different from different manufacturers and different depending on where on the key you strike.
The activation point is also somewhere in the middle..

I remember reading some study which advocated key travel of around 4 mm .. but I think that it could have been influenced by the status quo. If the majority of people are used to 4 mm, and have adjusted their style to it, then it is likely that they will say that 4 mm is the best for them.

3Dconnexion are not the first to release such a controller. There is the Space Ball, of which there has been many versions since the early '90s I think. Then there was the Logitech Magellan.

Btw. All leet Mac gamers connect their keyboards with Thunderbolt.

Bitstream Vera/DejaVu are the best fonts for coding. A good coding/console font should be quite narrow. Courier and Lucida Console can just go and die.
Before Vera I prefered fixed-semicondensed-12, that used to be the default under X. Not a scalable font, though.

How about a small screw? Screw it in and pull it out, like with a corkscrew, only smaller.

If you prefer tenkeyless, you could remap it to tenkeyless in software and remove the caps off the switches that you don't use. I considered doing that to my first G80-1800 when I first got it, but I got used to the layout before I could get my thumb out of my behind. :) I am now used to using the n...

That aside, I was also not happy with how geekhack got more and more complex with every update. No more mega threads, lets create a sub-forum for everything, do this and that, oh another sub-sub-forum and lets even split the picture topics into 5 sub-forums. On the other hand, those mega threads we...

Heh.. :| This is far from the first time that I have seen people who were prominent members of one big board falling out, break out and create their own board. I can understand if you want to keep your reasons secret, but you can't blame me for being curious when it is so obvious. I applaud you for ...

I find this board to be a bit redundant, to be honest. From what I have seen, there are only a few members here who are not members of Geekhack. Webwit, apparently .. I am supposing for personal reasons that most of us never got to know. Why? (thx for the geekhack-specific japanese pr0n btw! :lol: )...

ALPS:
- The initial resistance is too low. I think this could be because the springs are too short and not tensed enough when unpressed.
-There is too much friction after the tactile bump/click.
+They can be opened from above when mounted in a metal frame.

Real nice. Colour me jealous.

Hmm.. I am considering it. Too far to drive.

I have tested the most common Cherry MX and ALPS switches, but there are many out there that I want to try that I still have not. I am most interested in the IBM Beam Spring, the clicky Oki switch (where the spring is stretched instead of just compressed) and the clicky Monterey. My favourites (righ...

Anodized aluminium is oxidized only on the outside, in a thin layer. When aluminium is anodized for decorative purposes, with a dye, and with a metallic sheen (as I think it is in this case), then the layer is often quite thin. Heat sinks made of aluminium are often anodized -- anodized aluminium ca...

Mirroring the nine keys is just silly in my opinion. The tenkey arrangement is also found outside the realm of computer keyboards. Lots of left-handed people are used to using calculators with their left hand. Mirroring the position of the Enter and 0 keys make more sense, though. Those keys were in...

Yes. I use the Evoluent VerticalMouse at work. The buttons are very very nice. It feels as if you can click on them anywhere and they are just as light. The grip can be hard to get used to, though, because the mouse is quite large. Especially difficult to get used to if you are a woman with small ha...

Most mouse buttons are levers, meaning that the position on the button that you press determines the amount of pressure needed. Many mouse buttons also have switches that are too stiff. On many mice, the button is a part of the flexible plastic shell of the mouse, and that also adds resistance. The ...

The cell phone bastards are making it harder and harder. Over here, pay phones were first coin-operated. Then they require you to use a card, that you bought in advance. Now, the last ones are being dismantled, because "everyone has got a cell phone anyway". There are new parking plots in the capita...

Ohh.. Why did I not see this thread before?
If a group order is done, I would be interested in one black and one white set, pending price of course.
Blank, thick, keycaps is what I have been wanting all the time. I hope that they have a good texture. I am not a fan of Cherry's lasered POM caps.

I have lying around what I believe is the first IBM branded mouse. It was for their first Unix workstation - the RT 6150 http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12377&stc=1&d=1283700790 It weighs like a brick, yet the buttons feel disappointingly mushy, like buttons on a cheap TV remote, ex...

I'm guessing that it is an Apple I. The only ones I have seen pics of before were in wood boxes like this one.
Or is it another early kit computer, or prototype?

I don't believe in touchscreen keyboards and eye tracking. They are poor user interfaces. Poor in the sense that they are having fewer modalities than the classic keyboard and mouse. The human brain has evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to use tools. Using tools comes naturally for us. It t...

Aww. Now I have to actually de-lurk and post something ...